Fehr doesn’t “see a path to an agreement”

And it doesn’t sound promising, because it seems to me that the NHL owners/board and Lockout Commissioner want to win every single little piece of this negotiation. They want a rout, not a victory.

E.J. Hradek pointed out Sunday that the 1994-95 lockout (when Gary Bettman was just a Lockout Rookie) ended on Jan. 11 and the league was able to begin a 48-game season by Jan. 20. So it’s still not too late.

I love how the NHL and Daly make it sounds like the owners are making concessions during the negotiations – they are not, they are just asking for slightly less than the archaic proposal they first put on the table. I appreciate there has to be give and take, but what we have is just different levels of take and a question of how much more the players can give up.

Carp – do you have an idea on what areas are improved/improving for the players in this deal? Is it pensions, safety, travel etc..?

Cancel it already. Clowns. People’s lives are destroyed. The shore has been altered irrepairedly and they can’t split 3.3 billion? I know the events are not connected other than timing but the whole impasse seems more riculous in it’s wake. Perspective is everything. They are clowns.

It really doesn’t matter to me when the cba is settled. The rangers have already been screwed out of a chance to win the cup these next two years. There won’t be a season this year and by the time it’s settled the rangers will have to dismantle there team because the owners are hell bent to stricken the big market teams and player salaries to the point that no other league has done. All this bull crap because there are owners/teams that have no business being in the nhl. It’s official, the nhl is the worse league in sports, bye, bye, won’t ever get my money again nhl, that’s a fact jack.

Carp, you really don’t think a total loss of a season is going to hurt the NHL fanbase? I’m not necessarily saying it will…I don’t know.
I will tell you that I used to buy about 8 games a season, my wife and I loved going into the city, however since the last lockout, I’ve been to very few games…
Last season I saw one game at the Pebble, I didn’t even go to MSG. The season before, I went to one game, cause I landed free tickets. I’ve purchased zero jersey’s, hats etc since the last lockout…
I know not all fans will refuse to support the league but there are a few of us that will. However, I watch 99% of all Ranger games…on my couch…it’s cheaper and I don’t have to sit next to a drunk guy.
I will always be a Ranger fan, but I’ll support them without the use of my wallet.

While most people here dump on Mr Bettman and the owners, I doubt the NHLPA negotiates in good faith – which issue precisely prevents the players from hewing a compromise TODAY?
It can’t be the HRR, no?

My wife is a very gifted seamstress and she belongs to a clique, that goes to events for sewing and quilt making, and these ladies all get together( more or less in gatherings where they contribute their respective talent ( and I do mean talents),and make these weekly getogethers where they display their stuff and then all go to dinner at a fancy restaurant in the area…I encourage her in it because I like to see her make new friends. Now a handful of these folks own a property up in the mountains of North Carolina that they hibernate to in springtime, til fall, and they love it up there. My wife is too busy here to take part in that, but one of those women is from Quebec, and I got talking to her today at a soiree that she held where husbands were invited, and I asked her about Quebec hockey, and why they lost their NHL team.She said that she could not figure it out either because she frequently went to Nordiques games, and they always seemed to have a great and noisy following, and the fans seemed Hockey buffs to the hilt and especially when playing against other Canadian teams. When I suggested that perhaps they didn’t have enough fans to maintain the team, and this also surprised her. She no longer lives up there but lives down here now in Cocoa Beach full time (except for the NC venture), but maintains a year around home in Florida and has for several years. What is really wrong with Quebec, especially when looking at Arizona?

cccp
Been a long couple of weeks. We had to put our oldest dog down, he was 14 and i had him since he was 8 weeks old (been with me everywhere except military deployments and other “government” work trips). I also am working on a project for the Special Operations community for Veterans Day/Week that I am honoured to be taking part in it with other former spec op guys and their families that has taken up some well worthit time!

I went out to my yard just before the Michigan/Slippery Rock game to see if my rines were crossed, but I’m not even sure if I have a rine or what it would look like if I found it. How ridicurous is that?

fran – i suspect there is nothing wrong with Quebec’s fanbase now, they will probably be very hungry for an NHL team – they were screwed due to the small market and weak Canadian dollar at the time. (and the Lindros thing probably didnt help much either)

I think Hamilton is the place that can support a franchise the best, if the league dares go against the wishes of the Maple Leafs, it also sounds like Seattle has a good fanbase too. Now the Islanders are “fixed” i guess that leaves the Yotes, BJ’s and Panthers as the next potential movers.

My play would be limited to NHL, FIFA, possibly Madden 13 and Need for Speed – i dont go in for CoD or anything like that, maybe the odd shoot-em-up game. I also have some old PS2 games knocking around still that would be good to reminisce with – i gather the PS3 has backwards compatibility?

My PS3 is 160GB…i have 3 full games saved on it and bunch of game demos and still have about 90GB available. My playing habits are similar to yours… i don’t really play anything but the sports games. Platforms above 80GB are not backward compatible. When and if you decide to go for PS3 ask the sales person before you buy to make sure.